On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 20:20 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > I'm in the early stages of building an SD which will hold 8TB. > > This is where you should start: > > http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/23/the-new-box-some-purchases/ > > Earlier: the hardware selection process > > Later: some slight refinements. > > Goal: A FreeBSD 8.x system with a ZFS filesystem on 5x2TB HDD. > > Price: about $1800 I think. > > I should be building it this weekend. > > Yes: I could have built it cheaper. The main goal: big and decently > reliable. >
I would double the ram (or more) if possible... zfs will love you for it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
